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Germany’s Bundeswehr is to receive new anti-aircraft gun tanks to replace the Gepard weapon system, after the Bundestag’s Defence Committee agreed on the procurement of 19 tanks on Wednesday, dpa has learned from defence sources. The step sees the Bundeswehr responding to the war in Ukraine, where fending off drones is of key importance. Meanwhile the Ukrainian army is using the older German Gepard tanks. The decision-making process took a long time, a fact criticized by the defence policy spokesman for the opposition Christian Democrats, Florian Hahn. “The fact that it has taken two years to …

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